Alpine Happiness

[Scott85]

This makes me want to sell everything and become a bum so I can hike all summer.

 

[smw110136]

HOly Cross wilderness, Eagle county CO
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Beer break in that building. The story behind that structure is pretty interesting.

 

[Hem]

Good grief..
Amazing photos everyone.
Makes me feel like a kid again going to the library to look at picture books.
We sure are lucky.

 

[Hem]

Base camp in the Pintlers couple years back.

 

[Oak]

A couple of 14'ers and several 13'ers. Another 14'er about a mile away off my left shoulder.

 

[Oak]

Absaroka morning. In regards to Frémont's quote, there is a point at which the simple camera cannot capture the vastness as witnessed by the eye.

 

[elkduds]

A couple of 14'ers and several 13'ers. Another 14'er about a mile away off my left shoulder.

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Wetterhorn on left, Uncompahgre peak on right. Beautiful!

 

[WildWill]

 

[TOGIE]

A couple of 14'ers and several 13'ers. Another 14'er about a mile away off my left shoulder.

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must be about a mile away from redcloud then.

 

[Oak]

must be about a mile away from redcloud then.

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Sunshine and Redcloud to my right, Handies to my left.

Approaching Uncompahgre?

 

[TOGIE]

Sunshine and Redcloud to my right, Handies to my left.

Approaching Uncompahgre?

on approach. definitely one of the coolest mountains in the state. for no other reason than it's aesthetics and the high vast alpine it towers over.

 

[TOGIE]

this thread wrecked my work day.

sifting through my phone, looking at old facebook pictures. filled me with nostalgia and gratitude; sadness at memories long passed and happiness they happened.

furiously texting friends today to start getting some of our annual mountain excursions on the books for this summer. far too young to think the best mountain memories are in the past.

whiz break on mt wilson:

 

[sacountry]

Probably a state record if I wouldn't have released him....

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Woha.....not sure what's a bigger deal....the size of the trout or the fact that you're back on hunttalk....I'm going with the latter!

 

[EYJONAS!]

Woha.....not sure what's a bigger deal....the size of the trout or the fact that you're back on hunttalk....I'm going with the latter!

I've been back and busting chops for a hot minute amigo.

Only Jonas knows.....

 

[Irrelevant]

this thread wrecked my work day.

sifting through my phone, looking at old facebook pictures. filled me with nostalgia and gratitude; sadness at memories long passed and happiness they happened.

furiously texting friends today to start getting some of our annual mountain excursions on the books for this summer. far too young to think the best mountain memories are in the past.

whiz break on mt wilson:

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Just a couple elk in that pic...

 

[TOGIE]

Just a couple elk in that pic...

oh maybe just a handful

even more hunters though. sadly, i'm pretty sure it was the drainage immediately below us that was the site of the fatal muzzleloader vs. bowhunter incident last fall.

 

[EYJONAS!]

 

[Oak]

whiz break on mt wilson:

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I took a photo of that spot last fall, but I cheated.

 

[elkduds]

Flattops wilderness, Routt county CO. 5 years after the fire.

 

[Sytes]

I took a photo of that spot last fall, but I cheated.

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Just when one believes its open paradise to take a whiz, in comes Oak to buzz the whizzer!

Great thread all! I'm breaking moving boxes open to find my old-er photo albums.